COUNTDOWN: 3 days till the WORLD CUP in BRASIL

Winners and losers of the football World Cup

For many countries the football World Cup will be great entertainment and fun. The party mood will depend on how the team of the particular country achieves success. Employers will be confronted with many tired workers, because most of them will watch the games late at night. Completely different will be the situation for some people in Brazil itself. They will pay the price for our summer entertainment. 

Especially in emergent countries like Brazil, Millions are invested in enormous stadiums or in streets, which are not needed afterwards. This false investment is very annoying for people living there.

Affluent countries relinquish to have the World Cup in their country, because they would need to invest a great amount of money. Poor countries have to assume this job because some politics there think that they can benefit from it. Therefore citizens from these countries have to pay higher taxes to finance this great activity. The riots in Brazil clearly reflect the opinion of them about the acting of the government. If nothing is going to change in the future, sport events will solely take place in authoritarian states.

If you are interested in further reading about this topic or if you want to know why the World Cup could be a complete disaster, check out this article.

http://www.ibtimes.com/8-reasons-why-2014-fifa-world-cup-brazil-could-be-complete-disaster-1595676

Microwaves

                            Are microwaves harmful?

The use of microwaves is a hard discussed theme nowadays. In the 1970´s microwaves became popular and today almost 80% of Austrian households own one of these machines.  Many people can not imagine a life without this small kitchen assistant. Why? This creation is such a handy tool to defrost vegetables or to reheat food from the last day within seconds. Although there are people who think that the microwave is health-damaging. It is feared that microwaves destroy nutrients or that microwave radiation is harmful and makes sick. 

Is microwave radiation dangerous?

Actually they are not designated hazardous if a few things receive attention. A microwave has strict safety requirements which are responsible that the radiation can not leak. Therefore the radiation is not harmful as long as the device is in a good condition. It is important that people always have enough safety distance towards the microwave. 

The destiny of nutrients

Researches show that the food ingredients do not change more if they are rehashed in a microwave oven. In general food looses nutrients if they get heated no matter by cooking, roasting, frying or by microwave. The longer and the hotter the food becomes heated, the more nutrients will be destroyed.  

Conclusion:  microwaves - yes or no?

Microwaves have advantages as well as disadvantages. Everybody needs to decide for themselves if it is always necessary to heat the food in the microwave. Basically it is recommended that people should cook fresh as often as possible and if there are any temporary bottlenecks they could use the microwave.